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Boris N. Florja, Russkoe Gosudarstvo I Еgo Zapadnye Sosedi (1655–1661 Gg.), Moskva: Indrik, 2010, In: Lithuanian Historical Studies, 17 (2012), S Zitierhinweis Meilus, Elmantas: Rezension über: Boris N. Florja, Russkoe gosudarstvo i еgo Zapadnye sosedi (1655–1661 gg.), Moskva: Indrik, 2010, in: Lithuanian Historical Studies, 17 (2012), S. 196-201, DOI: 10.15463/rec.1189719385 First published: Lithuanian Historical Studies, 17 (2012) copyright Dieser Beitrag kann vom Nutzer zu eigenen nicht-kommerziellen Zwecken heruntergeladen und/oder ausgedruckt werden. Darüber hinaus gehende Nutzungen sind ohne weitere Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber nur im Rahmen der gesetzlichen Schrankenbestimmungen (§§ 44a-63a UrhG) zulässig. LITHUANIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES 17 2012 ISSN 1392-2343 PP. 196–201 B.N. Floria, Russkoe gosudarstvo i еgo Zapadnye sosedi (1655–1661 gg.) [Флоря Б.Н., Русское государство и его Западные соседи (1655– 1661 гг.)], Moscow: Indrik, 2010, 656 p. ISBN 978-5-91674-082-0 When this monograph by Boris Floria appeared, it was hoped that the work would evaluate the earlier Russian historiography on the topic, and, relying on newly discovered sources, present a contemporary, new approach to this painful, ‘Deluge’ period. According to the Imperial Russian, and even more Soviet understanding, in 1654–1666, the Muscovite state fought a fair war of liberation: it helped (having been asked) the Ukrainian and Belarusian nations to free themselves from the yoke of the Poles and Lithuanians, while uniting all three East Slavic lands into a united tsarist government. Unfortunately, the annotation on page 4 of the discussed book causes alarm. It declares that the monograph is analysing relations between Russia and its Western neighbours after the Pereyaslav Rada and Ukraine’s anne- xation [here this desire is presented as a reality?] 1, the Russian state made great efforts to resolve the most important challenges it faced in foreign poli- cy – the unification of the Eastern Slavic lands and the conquest of an outlet to the Baltic Sea [wondering just who, and when, raised such challenges for Russia, and what forced them to decide?]. In the first sentences of the monograph’s introduction, albeit tentatively, it is admitted that in the middle of the 17th century a crisis arose in the tradi- tional system of international relations in Eastern Europe with the actions of the Russian side playing not the final role ... (p. 6). But later some challenges (without specifying them) standing against Russia are mentioned again and, apparently, fate or even higher powers faced the Russian elite with the neces- sity [my emphasis – E.M.] to make decisions on the fate of Ukraine and the joint state of Poland–Lithuania (p. 6). The short review of sources mentions only the Moscow Prikaz records in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents, and, as if insuring against possible criticism, stresses that the monograph explores the history of Russia’s foreign policy in 1655–1661, rather than the system of international relations of part of Eastern Europe (p. 7). But it does not succeed in avoiding criticism. The Ukrainian historian Jaroslav Fedoruk, with full justification, stated that for a thorough study of the various processes and intentions that took place at that time in Eastern Europe, it is clearly too small, and provided a number of examples of sources 1 This is something new; up to now in Russia there was talk and writing about the unification of Russia and Ukraine. BOOK REVIEWS 197 and how (especially by comparing them) they could be used, so that the view would be much more complete, and not one-sided 2. From the Russian side, all of its neighbours (at least to the West) often hear exhortations ‘not to politicise history’. However when in a single page one reads that war became inevitable when the decision was made in Mos- cow to accept Ukraine into Russia’s custody (although it was not Poland and Lithuania which thereby broke the Eternal Peace with Russia, concluded just 20 years earlier, but vice versa), and on another page, it is noted as axio- matic that someone always gave Muscovy the task of uniting all the Eastern Slavic lands around Moscow. One might think this, a Sisyphean task, which is still underway without a chance of completion. Is this not due to the little Lithuanians and treacherous Poles incited by the treacherous West with the Pope at the forefront? Or perhaps just these unhappy, ‘enslaved’ Eastern Slavs and Orthodox Christians did not really wish to be pod vysokoju cars- koju rukoju, but played their games, as they are playing them up to now? They went to rescue the Ukrainians, but probably the Belarusians and those very Ukrainians suffered the most ... Discussing the diplomatic activities of the Russians, it is pointed out that the Muscovites formed the opinion of Europe’s rulers at that time, that essentially no one would come to the assistance of Poland and Lithuania. One can note that one of the main reasons provoking another aggressor, Sweden, to attack the state of Poland and Lithuania was the aim to stop the expansion of Russia to the west, that is, that it by itself would not destroy the victims and become established on the Baltic coast. The monograph makes the bold conclusion that the magnates and sz- lachta of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania clearly stopped considering the Russian government temporary (p. 42). Yes, at that time many gentry and a few magnates in the conquered lands, wanting to preserve their posses- sions under the conditions of occupation, swore allegiance to the tsar, but as subsequent events showed, most of them were to forsake that forced oath at the slighest opportunity, namely because they considered the Russian go- vernment temporary, and swore an oath to it only when they were forced by circumstances. Summarising the successful year 1655 for Russia, the author states that never before were Russian politicians so close to resolving the task, which they raised [my emphasis – E.M.] in the 1490s to unite all the Eastern Slavic lands in a unified Russian state (p. 43). But here, as always, the Poles inter- fered, as well as the Swedes ... Emphasising the Swedish reluctance to make any decisions that would consolidate the new situation unfolding between the two countries in 1655, because it was preparing to attack Russia. The- refore, to hinder the plans of Charles X Gustav, a plan for a preventive [my 2 Ia. Fedoruk, Vilens’kii dogovyr 1656 roku. Skhidnoevropeis’ka kriza i Ukraina u seredini XVII stolittia (Kiev, 2011), p. 30. 198 BOOK REVIEWS emphasis – E.M.] war with Sweden was raised (p. 49). How useful here would have been the sources of the same Swedes ... Considerable attention is devoted to the economic considerations jus- tifying the war against the Swedes, showing how the Swedes ‘harmed’ Rus- sian merchants, restricting their trade through the Livonian ports belonging to the Swedes in every way, even though somehow Russian trade through these ports increased, and the Swedes themselves were interested in its growth and the income from it. But here, it appeared to the Russians that they were unfairly wronged, even though everything was based on bilateral agreements, and they, as the author writes, decided to destroy the Swedish– erected barriers to Europe by force. The Swedes, according to the author, were also guilty, for by becoming involved in this conflict, they forced other countries to engage in it, which previously had not intended to, and were inclined to leave Russia unhindered to defend its interests in the fight against its neighbours. Describing the failed Russian attempt in 1656 to take Livonia with Riga away from the Swedes, the author believes that the Russians overestimated their strength. On the other hand, it is shown that the Polish and Lithuanian side, after the recapture of Warsaw from the Swedes, also overestimated their options before the beginning of the 1656 negotiations near Vilnius. The Russian positions with respect to the Poles and Lithuanians were eased by their defeat near Riga. Since both sides needed a ceasefire very much, on 11 March 1656 near Vilnius (in Nemėžys), it was signed by both parties without adopting any major commitments, but only agreeing not to end the war against the Swedes, and promising to elect the tsar as the ruler of Poland and Lithuania in the next Seimas. In discussing the situation that arose in 1657, when the forces of Swe- den, Brandenburg-Prussia, Transylvania and Ukraine united in a coalition against Poland and Lithuania, the author shows how this threatened the latter, and how they tried to seek Russian assistance. In turn, even though B. Khmelnytsky, by joining this coalition, actually joined the side of the enemies of Russia, the Russians did not make very strong statements, be- cause they believed that the situation would speed up the Polish decision to elect the tsar to their throne. Moscow had to make important political decisions, because otherwise, by not interfering, the danger of completely losing control of the situation and no longer being a decisive factor in this war threatened. But in the summer of 1657, matters turned out differently. The Crimean Tatars, the Turkish Sultan and Austria provided assistance to Poland and Li- thuania. Denmark invaded the Swedish holdings, and therefore the Swedish king and his army left Cossack troops and the Transylvania army in Poland actually alone, and the latter were eventually forced to surrender to Polish, Lithuanian and Tatar forces. And Khmelnytsky was forced to abandon the BOOK REVIEWS 199 independent policy that he had carried out at the end of 1656 and in the first half of 1657, and then to seek a rapprochement with Moscow again. After the situation in Poland had changed radically, Moscow realised that the election of the tsar to the throne of the Republic had become very qu- estionable.
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